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A review by rosalind14
Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette
4.0
5 stars for Chéri, 3 for The End of Chéri. I’m sure it deserves to be read in the original French (I wish I could) but I think the new translation does as good a job as possible.
“‘I look like a gardener,’ she judged bluntly. ‘A vegetable farmer. A Norman vegetable farmer who goes out in the potato fields wearing a necklace. It looks about as good on me as an ostrich plume stuck up my nose, and I’m being polite.’”
“‘I look like a gardener,’ she judged bluntly. ‘A vegetable farmer. A Norman vegetable farmer who goes out in the potato fields wearing a necklace. It looks about as good on me as an ostrich plume stuck up my nose, and I’m being polite.’”